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2Co_8:17. Proof of this σπουδή of Titus.
For the summons indeed he received; but, seeing that he was more zealous, of his own accord he set out to you. Paul has not expressed himself incorrectly, seeing that he can only have had in his mind a climax (Rückert); nor has he used μὲν … δέ in the sense of the climactic οὐ μόνον … ἀλλά (Billroth, also Flatt); but the concessive clause τὴν μὲν παράκλ . ἐδέξ . expresses the delicate modesty and subordination of Titus, according to which he would not have it appear that he set out on the journey αὐθαίρετος ; the second clause, on the other hand, sets forth the actual state of the case. The summons (2Co_8:6) indeed he received; he did not say as it were: there is no need of thy summons, I go of my own impulse; but in the actual state of the case he was too zealous to have needed a summons, and set out to you of his own self-determination.
ἐξῆλθε ] The praeterite does not denote what was resolved on (Billroth), but is that of the epistolary style (comp. συνεπέμψ ., 2Co_8:18; 2Co_8:22; Xen. Anab. i. 9. 25), used to represent the point of time at which the letter is read by those receiving it. Comp. Act_15:27; Act_23:30, also on Gal_6:11.